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CNN By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The Los Angeles City Council president says surveillance video taken from outside his district office in North Hollywood on Thursday shows officers from another city’s police department dropping a homeless person off on the sidewalk and “abandoning” him there and has called for a state investigation of the incident. “A Burbank

WJHG, CNN By Raja Razek, Dalia Faheid, Amanda Musa and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Florida fire officials are still asking beachgoers to exercise caution Sunday after three people were injured Friday in two separate shark attacks within just 90 minutes of each other at neighboring Walton County beaches. The attacks happened about four miles

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The Los Angeles City Council president says surveillance video taken from outside his district office in North Hollywood on Thursday shows officers from another city’s police department dropping a homeless person off on the sidewalk and “abandoning” him there and has called for a state investigation of the incident. “A Burbank Police

By Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — A rare 7.3-foot hoodwinker sunfish washed ashore on the Oregon coast earlier this week, the Seaside Aquarium said. The massive aquatic species was found north of Seaside in northwestern Oregon along Gearhart Beach on June 3. A buzz on social media led to curious people “flocking to the beach

By Raja Razek, Mounira Elsamra and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — An investigation is underway after seniors at East Brunswick High School in New Jersey received yearbooks this week with a Jewish Student Union photo replaced by a photo of Muslim students, the superintendent said. “We were made aware that in yearbooks, distributed only to

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Actor Alec Baldwin and several crew members gathered in a church at a New Mexico ranch on October 21, 2021, to rehearse a scene from their upcoming Western film “Rust.” Then came the unexpected gunshot. A promising cinematographer was killed, a director was wounded and a film production was

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The day after Alabama carried out the first-known US execution using nitrogen gas, its attorney general sent a clear message to death penalty states that might want to follow suit: “Alabama has done it, and now so can you.” Indeed, in the weeks immediately following the January execution of

By Raja Razek, Dalia Faheid, Amanda Musa and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Florida fire officials are still asking beachgoers to exercise caution Sunday after three people were injured Friday in two separate shark attacks within just 90 minutes of each other at neighboring Walton County beaches. The attacks happened about four miles apart and

By Jean Casarez and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Just over a month after his conviction was overturned in New York, attorneys for disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein filed an appeal Friday to overturn his Los Angeles conviction from December 2022, when he was found guilty on three sexual assault charges and sentenced to 16 years in

CNN By Chandelis Duster and Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — The father of a Minnesota transgender high school student who says she was beaten in school said Thursday he wants the students who beat or harassed his daughter to face criminal charges. Mark Walztoni tells CNN his 17-year-old daughter Cobalt Sovereign, a junior at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, was in

By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — An LGBTQ+ publication in Philadelphia has claimed the record for the largest attendance at a drag queen story time reading, according to Guinness World Records. Drag queens read books to 263 people at the city’s National Constitution Center last Saturday during an event hosted by the Philadelphia Gay News and

By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Three Louisville Metro police officers failed to activate their body cameras, in violation of policy, during the arrest of golfer Scottie Scheffler near Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 17, an investigation found. Scheffler was arrested for allegedly refusing to stop while on his way to a

By Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — A woman’s death in Sierra County has been confirmed as the first documented fatal attack by a black bear on a human in California history, according to officials. Patrice Miller, 71, was found dead in her Downieville home last November, but a recently released autopsy report by California’s Department

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of US Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. Personal Birth date: June 23, 1948 Birth place: Pin Point, Georgia Birth name: Clarence Thomas Father: M.C. Thomas, a farm worker Mother: Leola (Anderson) Thomas Marriages: Virginia “Ginni” (Lamp) Thomas (May 30, 1987-present); Kathy (Ambush)

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice of the US Supreme Court. Personal Birth date: June 25, 1954 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Sonia Maria Sotomayor Father: Juan Sotomayor, factory worker Mother: Celina (Baez) Sotomayor, nurse Marriage: Kevin Edward Noonan (August 1976-October 1983,

By Chandelis Duster and Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — The father of a Minnesota transgender high school student who says she was beaten in school said Thursday he wants the students who beat or harassed his daughter to face criminal charges. Mark Walztoni tells CNN his 17-year-old daughter Cobalt Sovereign, a junior at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, was in the

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Tokyo’s government is launching its own dating app as Japan’s fertility rate plunges to a record low. The nation of nearly 124 million people only recorded around 727,000 births last year, new data shows. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Tokyo’s government is launching its own dating app as Japan’s fertility rate plunges to a record low. The nation of nearly 124 million people only recorded around 727,000 births last year, new data shows. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — On August 9, 2018, Steven Hale stood outside a Tennessee prison as a convicted murderer inside awaited a lethal dose of a three-drug cocktail. It was the first execution of a death row inmate in the state in nearly a decade. Hale was one of seven reporters selected by

By Taylor Galgano, Amanda Musa and Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Police in Burlington, Vermont, have apologized to high school students who were rattled by a role-play robbery demonstration and mock shooting they say sent them diving to the floor to hide under tables and texting ‘goodbye’ and ‘I love you’ to their loved ones. About 20 students from a